Name: Talitha
Gender: Female
Usage: Talitha, of aramaic origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Talitha are in general originating from Israel, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Talitha is: Little girl, Maiden.
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Numerology of the first name Talitha: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 8. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: ambitious, successful, realistic, powerful, authoritative, courageous, leading.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Visionary
Ruling planet: Saturn
Colors: Black, Purple
Gemstones: Ruby, Amethyst
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The name Talitha is ranked on the 8,081st position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 33300 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Talitha has seven characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Talitha for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Talitha is an uncommon feminine name meaning "little girl" in Aramaic, given in reference to the Biblical story in the Gospel of Mark in which Jesus Christ was said to have resurrected a dead child with the words "Talitha cumi" or "Talitha kum" or "Talitha koum," meaning "Little girl, I say to you, arise!"
It was among many names taken from the Bible that were used by Puritans in the American colonial era. Talitha was used for a girl born in North Carolina in the 1740s; her brother's name was Lazarus. The Biblical Lazarus of Bethany was also raised from the dead by Jesus Christ in the Bible. A century later, eleven-year-old Talitha Dunlap was among the between 120 and 140 men, women and children who were killed during the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre. The name ranked 1,108 among names given to American girls born in 1881. The name was also occasionally used in England by 1861, when the christening of a girl named Talitha-Cumi People was reported in The Times. It remains in occasional use in the United States and other countries. Forty-two girls born in 2011 in the United States were given the name Talitha, while 38 newborn American girls were given the name in 2012 and 40 girls received the name in 2013.
In Brazil, Talita (or Talitha/Thalita) was the 100th most common name for newborn girls in 2009.
New Testament: from an Aramaic word meaning ‘little girl’. Jesus raised a child from the dead with the words ‘Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise’ (Mark 5: 41).
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